Welcome to the Breitbart Laboratory in the College of Marine
Science, University of South Florida
Microbes are everywhere. In every
milliliter of surface seawater, there are 1 million bacteria and 10
million viruses. Microbes are very diverse, and play important roles in
global carbon and nutrient cycling. The Breitbart
lab uses molecular techniques
(such as metagenomic sequencing) to examine the diversity, distribution,
and ecological roles of viruses and bacteria in a wide range of
environments - including seawater, animals, plants, coral reefs, and
reclaimed water.
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Announcements
Call for
Animal Samples with Unknown Infections
If you are a
veterinarian or pathologist treating an animal with
an unknown viral infection and
are interested in the technique,
please contact Mya Breitbart by e-mail:
mya@marine.usf.edu
Find out more about the method: viral
metagenomics
New Video Page Videos about our field site in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico
(by Neilan Kuntz, Plaid Productions)
Recent Awards and Accomplishments
2008 Terry Fei Fan Ng received
the Elsie
and William Knight, Jr. Endowed Fellowship
2008 Camille Daniels received
the Bridge
to the Doctorate Endowed Fellowship
2008 Dr. Mya Breitbart was featured in
the
USF Faculty Spotlight
2008 Terry Fei Fan Ng
won the best student presentation at the
International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine Conference in
Italy
2007 Karyna Rosario won third
place
student presentation at the
Florida Branch American Society
for Microbiology 2007 Annual Meeting
2007 Dr. Mya Breitbart was
named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
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